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Juan Gabriel Vasquezbooks include the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin award winner and national bestseller, The Sound of Things Falling, as well as the award-winning The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana.

Idylls of the King and a New Selection of Poems

150th Anniversary Edition

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson evokes past and present, seeking to reconcile the Victorian zeal for public progress with private despair. Full of eloquence, epic grandeur, and myth, his haunting, rhapsodic poems still cast their lyrical spell today.

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Idylls of the King IntroductionIdylls of the KingDedicationThe Coming of Arthur

The Round Table:Gareth and LynetteThe Marriage of GeraintGeraint and EnidBalin and BalanMerlin and VivienLancelot and ElaineThe Holy GrailPelleas and EttarreThe Last TournamentGuinevere

The Passing of ArthurTo the QueenA Selection of PoemsThe KrakenMarianaSongThe PoetThe Lady of ShalottThe Lotos-EatersChoric SongBreak, Break, BreakThe Two VoicesUlysses